Account-book



(No Model.)

J. EICHERT.

ACCOUNT BOOK.

No. 604,521. Patented May 24,1898.

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JOHN EIOHERT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

ACCOUNT-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,521, dated May 24, 1898.

Application filed March 20, 1897. Serial No. 628,459. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN EICHERT,EL citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Account- Books, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in account-books, and relates more particularly to that class of account-books known as lodgers, and the invention has for its object to provide a ledger wherein the account will be arranged alphabetically, and also to provide means for referring to any account in the ledger without reference to the ledger-index.

The invention further aims to provide means whereby each division will be separated, and when the ledger is opened at one division the succeeding letter or division will be slightly exposed to view, so that all the pages intervening between the account at which the ledger is opened and the succeeding letter or division may be moved with the one operation, and the turning of the pages composing this division or letterwill slightly expose the first page of the succeeding division throughout the entire book.

The invention further aims to construct a ledger that will afford, in addition, a simple and absolutely sure check for the work and enabling bookkeepers or others to readily as certain wherein an error has been made when posting the accounts from the day-book or journal to the ledger; and to this end the invention finally consists in the novel construc tion, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically described, and particularly pointed out in the claim, and in describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout both views, in which Figure 1 is an open View of the book, showing the succeeding division slightly exposed, so that the leaves of the division at which the book is opened may be turned with one operation. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the cover, showing the leaves dividing the pages of each division and the strips arranged in each division to slightly turn the leaves, so that the first page of the succeeding division may be easily reached without reference to the index.

Referring now to the drawings by referenceletters, A represents the back of the book, which may be of the ordinary construction; B, the leaves of the same, which are bound therein in the ordinary manner and are arranged in alphabetical order, a certain number of the leaves or pages being assigned to each letter of the alphabet and the proportions being determined as may be desired.

The dividingsheets O consist of sheets of paper which are entirely separate from the pages of the book, and each sheet has its inner edge doubled over upon itself and made U-shaped, as shown in Fig. 2, and each one of these bent-over or doubled portions D receives the inner edges of a certain number of the pages which form the book. After the pages of the dividing-sheets O D are placed in position the pages are bound and the cover A applied thereto in the usual manner. When the book is opened, the dividing-sheets have their edges exposed, so that one sees at once where to take hold of the pages for the purpose of beginning at the first of a letter or alphabetical division. By means of these dividing-pages the entire number of pages forming the division between two of the pages is shown at a glance, and hence the entire division can be turned at once.

I desire to call particular attention to the arrangement of the alphabetical letter with the folio-number, as it will be observed that by this arrangement an error in posting one account may be readily detectedas, for instance, any account belonging, we will say, in B and posted through error in S, you would indicate in the journal or day-book by the folio-number and the letter, and by reference to the day-book or journal in checking for an error this alphabetical letter would indicate at once that this particular account had been erroneously posted. Another novel feature is the arrangement of the strips in the divisions so as to permit the ready reference to each succeeding division, and it will be noticed throughout that the peculiar arrangement of the book will considerably facilitate the Work in keeping the same and readily detecting errors in posting.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an account-book, the leaves B arranged in sections, combined with the dividing-sheets C which have their inner edges turned inwardly so as to form the strips D, and which sheet C and strip D inclose the inner edge of [0 each section of the leaves 13, substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN EICHERT. Witnesses:

A. M. WILSON, GEO. B. PARKER. 

